“The authorities” hope that it will help to improve relations between Russia and the United States.

In the annexed Crimea, a monument to the 32nd US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The bust was installed today in Yalta in the framework of the traditional Celebration of the Roosevelt street, which is celebrated in the city for 12 years, reported on the website of the local “administration”.

The monument was opened by the so-called “mayor” of Yalta Andrew Rostenko. He stressed that the monument Roosevelt set “for notable contribution to preservation of peace, freedom and democracy in the twentieth century”.

Recall that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in the Crimea at the Yalta conference in 1945.

As reported Корреспондент.netthe bust of Roosevelt was made in 1960 Sebastopol sculptor Konstantin Koshkin. For many years he was in the Livadia Palace, and then stood in the Roosevelt Museum, which opened in Yalta in 2005 for the anniversary of the Yalta conference.

Note that the “mayor” of Rostenko expressed the hope that the installation of a monument to Roosevelt will help to improve relations between Russia and the United States.